Mystery indica hempy buckets grow

had some seeds laying around, and decided i would try out the hempy buckets. my plan is to keep the pH 6.2 every watering, and hopefully not even think about these plants at all.

There's 6 indica seedlings, about 10 days old, all started in a mini 1 gallon bubbler bucket

I'm not even kidding, they already smell. i havent seen a plant have a disctinct MJ scent so young (but then again IM young)

Anyways, built a little home for them, lined it with mylar, and stuck some flourescent powered goodness in it.
Only problem is without nice ventilation is currently 90 degrees. Oh well indicas like it hotter right?

Heres some pics

Hempy buckets are the truth man.I would suggest that you cover your buckets in something dark,so you won't get alage attack!! from the light mixing with the chems and warm water.Nice hempy bucket set up? Place a portable ACunit in your room.


I could never figure out how to know when your roots hit the bottom of the bucket???

if you cover the tops of the buckets, it wont properly aerate, but i still need to line the buckets with reflective metal tapes on the outsides

you pretty much will know when the roots hit the bottom when there is a sudden explosion of growth.

on the other hand, i've been worried about inhaling perlite dust

does anyone know if im safe with my hempy buckets from any perlite particles?

added a couple fans, still near 90 degrees in the cabinet, and its 10 degrees outside. I'm thinking thats a good thing or i would need some more fans

lined the buckets with reflective tape too.. now all i have to do is watch them grow

oh forget to mention that i got the idea for the cabinet from the flourescent lights on ceiling, couldn't bring the light fixture down, so i brought the plants up :)

some more

Damn! dude that is a nice setup!! everything looks sweet!!:thumbsup:

got their watering of nutrients today, making it third watering since introduced to nutes

75ppm of calmag, and 225ppm of peters all purpose 20-20-20
making the water 500ppm from tap (started at 200ppm)

no sign of burns :)
these little things are taking higher ppm levels than my monster sativa in flowering (low-feeder strain)


heres a pic
... still growin'

Up to 700ppm, using 20-20-20, and cal-mag+
Thinking I'll flower in the next week or two, why not
These hempy buckets are certainly impressing me.. And its so damn easy!

Here are some snap shots, that last one is of the "Runt"

dont . get nailed :p nice grow

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Originally Posted by smokealot123

dont . get nailed

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what the hell is that supposed to mean?!

wow thouse look great. but whats a hempy bucket?

hempy buckets are a very easy passive hydroponic method. I'ts roughly 3/4 perlite and 1/4 vermiculite. I drilled a hole about 2 inches above the bottom of the bucket on the side, creating a water table. water at pH 6.2 until it drains out of the hole, do this every 2 days or so, and that's it. you can just forget about it. no pH checking (besides when you water) and no ppm checking (besides when you water). Give it full strength nutrients every watering. (of course introduce at 1/4 strength, then 1/2 for a bit first) but then every watering full strength. Why it doesn't burn? who knows. Why it doesn't get root rot? who knows. but it works well, do a search on hempy buckets. It's better than soil, no comparison, but a fine tuned oldschool ponics system will beat hempy buckets. however, with the hempy's you don't have to worry or think about anything at all, just watch them grow.

still 700 ppm, added superthrive this time in addition to peter's and cal-mag
also did some training

got my reflector, so i moved them from their nest down to a table until i flower them. figure i'll flower in 10 days.

do i need to wait until they show all show their sex before i can start 12/12?

I love you.



I have been so fucking upset over my grow lately, I abandoned the thread I had on here, and was thinking of tossing the grow because I just couldn't keep my damn temps down and so many other problems.

This thread is an inspiration. I too am a hempy bucket grower with temps often hitting 90!

I am definitely subscribing to this.

What do you use to lower your water ph (I have heard ph down from fish/pet stores is bad so I do not know where to find any as there is no hydro shop and I won't buy over net)

And what kind of Ph meter do you use?

My girls are about the same age.

peace

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Originally Posted by melodious fellow

I love you.



I have been so fucking upset over my grow lately, I abandoned the thread I had on here, and was thinking of tossing the grow because I just couldn't keep my damn temps down and so many other problems.

This thread is an inspiration. I too am a hempy bucket grower with temps often hitting 90!

I am definitely subscribing to this.

What do you use to lower your water ph (I have heard ph down from fish/pet stores is bad so I do not know where to find any as there is no hydro shop and I won't buy over net)

And what kind of Ph meter do you use?

My girls are about the same age.

peace

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I love you too! I use general hydroponic ph-down, the dry kind not the liquid. Why won't you purchase at hydro shops online? I've purchased tons of stuff from hydrowarehouse, and greentree's hydroponics, good prices and pretty fast. I would be just as worried if not more purchasing in person than online, (your dealing with a company that sells stuff online to pot growers all day, not people eyeing you in their store to see if you grow pot or not and then have people follow you home) so i would be less worried.

I don't use an electronic pH meter, i use a liquid pH tester. It's 5 bucks, you fill a vial with water, drop a few drops of liquid, and it changes color depending on pH value. 5.0 is completely orange, 5.5 is light orange (to yellow), 6.0 is pure yellow, 6.5 yellowish green... so 5.4pH is a little darker orange than 5.5, 5.3 even darker orange than 5.4, etc... you can learn the shade differences really quickly so you can tell if its about 5.6, or 5.9, or 6.1 blah blah, even though the color chart works in .5 increments (i.e. 5.0pH, 5.5pH, 6.0pH). One liquid tester *should* last you throughout your grow, unless you check your pH every 2 seconds like I do, then you might need a couple.

I'm not dealing with the 90's temps anymore. I took them out of their "nest" (up near the ceiling, grow box lined with mylar) and just put them on a table now that i have a reflector for the 150w fluorescent. They don't have the reflectivity they had in their nest, but hopefully the batwing reflector plus the coolor temps will make up for the fact they aren't contained in a reflective box of light.




Here's a shot of the group, looking much more "dialed in" now

Cool cool bro.

I have not been able to see all your pics yet, hopefully will have faster net soon.

I have ascertained Ph Up and Down.

What type and how much lighting are you using? Congrats on the new nest and lower temps... what are they now?

Out of curiosity, did you see much growth at 90 degrees?

Good luck, wonderful thread and grow... keep us updated.

peace

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Originally Posted by melodious fellow

Cool cool bro.
I have not been able to see all your pics yet, hopefully will have faster net soon.
I have ascertained Ph Up and Down.
What type and how much lighting are you using? Congrats on the new nest and lower temps... what are they now?
Out of curiosity, did you see much growth at 90 degrees?
Good luck, wonderful thread and grow... keep us updated.
peace

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Actually, I think I saw a *decrease* in growth when the temps dropped. Its about 70-75F now thats it's not in a contained box, so they have the same ambient temperature of the room they are in. I think the higher the temperature, the faster the plant grows. So basically, as hot as you can get it without the plants wilting and being heat stressed is the best temperature I would have to believe. If you have a mutant plant that can handle 110 degrees and thrive in it, i'm sure it would grow much faster than in 75 degrees. But no plant can take that much heat!

I'm using a 150w ecoplus fluorescent as the main light in the batwing reflector (10,000 lumens just one fluorescent!) I also have a 4" shoplight (probably about 5000-6000 lumens), and 3 26w CFLs (1700 lumens a piece). So i have about 20,000 lumens for 6 plants, in a 1.5' wide by 3' long grow area. When they flower they will have much more light since it they will be moved into my flowering chamber :)

nice man. can see the pics now, very cool stuff.

I shore wish plants could handle them high temps. Pretty shore photosynthesis and gas exchange in the leaves almost halts above 90 F. O well, my AC is on the way.

What type of soil is mixed with your perlite?

What type of flowering chamber do you have, CFLs still or switch to HID?

How is your new grow area set up, you said no more contained box.

Hope everything stays peachy for ya bro. O by the way, do you know what type of indy girls you have?

peace

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Originally Posted by melodious fellow

I too am a hempy bucket grower with temps often hitting 90!

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hempy is 3/4 perlite, 1/4 vermiculite. I thought you were a hempy grower?

I feel very paranoid right now. :wtf:


they will have hps lighting in flowering in addition to the fluorescent lighting they have right now. minus 2 CFLs to keep a mother plant.

i think 75F is what you should aim for as far as temperatures actually.

I am a hempy grower...

A "hempy bucket" is just drilling a hole 1-2 inches from the bottom of the bucket to create a mini reservoir, yeah?

One could feasibly use any medium, perlite, vermiculite, soil, coco fiber, crushed rock wool, worm castings, etc or a mixture of some of those

My next grow is going to be 50/50 perlite and Fox Farm Ocean Forest I think.

See, I am no po.

The HPS sounds nifty. I am just going CFLs I think, but yea 75 F is where I am going to keep temps as well.

good luck and keep us updated bro

peace

up to 800ppm. Looked like maybe beginning signs of iron deficiency so i decided to water with GH hydro nutes, 10-5-14, had a little bit more iron than the peter's, and a couple of other things i thought it might benefit from. I figure people get sick of eating the same crap all the time, why not plants?

Two confirmed females, Two confirmed males, Two unknown gender

I put the males outside the light radius so the girls can get more light. I can't bring myself to kill them. I'll just let them sit there until its completely obvious and i'm forced to kill them

One of the last two showed their sex.. FEMALE. Giving me 3/6 confirmed females. 50% not too bad

Four plants, Only one unknown, looks like its leaning towards female too!

I stuck two ladies and the unknown into the flowering chamber yesterday, leaving the best looking female to become the new hempy mama

Heres some pictures of the hempy Mom, i'll take some of the flowering girls once the lights turn on.

(Look how many blades are on that leaf! :) I'm thinking it'll eventually make 13 bladed leaves)

Been a long time since an update :P

So in the beginning I started 6 seeds, and now i have the results of them all.
Three were 100% female, two were male, and one was a freak and ended up being a hermaphrodite, I couldn't kill it so I put it in an upstairs bedroom to get natural sunlight and continue to flower (hope that works... lol)

So since I'm keeping a mother of the best, I currently have two females flowering, 14 days into 12/12. I think they look alright for 2 weeks! right?


The only thing that is wrong, is a couple bud sites on both of the plants have some really whacky yellowing going on. I think it could be from being too close to the HPS, because the buds stretched pretty close to it before I raised it.

When I noticed the yellowing, I started adding 1/2tsp per gallon of cal-mag+ to the nutrient mix, which was just Maxibloom (5-15-14), using about 1/2 tsp per gallon of that as well, which is half strength of the bottle dosage.

So with the 1/2tsp cal-mag, and the 1/2tsp of maxibloom, starting with tap water at 200ppm-- I get a total ppm of about 800.

So hempy growers...!

My plants are about 1.5' tall, 14 days in. What ppm has your nutrient mix been at this stage? is 800ppm too low do you figure? ... and

what does the yellowing look like to you guys?

and lastly, how do they look for 2 weeks? (everyones gotta ask)

thanks all!

oh yeah, heres a top shot of the momma plant

just trimmed off three lowest bud branches on one of the girls to concentrate the energy to the other top buds... hopefully it will resume from the shock in a couple days

quick dried the buds...

believe it or not im kinda high! 15 days flowering im kinda high i cant wait another 40 days. I think this must be karma for the tropical sativa last grow, which, sucked ass in every single fathomable way.

I guess I like doing things late.. with the last plant i put in the screen a couple weeks into flowering instead of letting it fill up in veg, and now same with these two

first picture is before putting in the screen

the last picture is best viewed maximized :thumbsup:

The mom's doing really well! I've been feeding at about 500ppm, but the runoff is 800. Watering at 6.0-6.2pH, but runoff is 5.8 .. Doesn't seem to be affecting her, but I'll probably end up flushing till I can get the runoff the same as the feeding. Going to air layer layer her in a little over a week so I'll have a batch of clones waiting for when the girls finish flowering.


When I started this seed (the mom) It looked 100% indica but now, as its older, it doesn't really look completely indica anymore does it?


I know this is a pretty impossible question but..
Can anyone tell me *anything* about this plant based on how it looks?
Mostly sativa/indica? A strain you've grown that it reminds you of? The 2 Girls in flower right now are from the same batch of seeds as the mother plant, also I know it sounds weird but it smells kind of like.. italian sausage with a little orange juice spilled on it.


Anyway, heres some pictures of her

Half way done now
The 900-1000ppm was kind of on the extremely high side. The runt ate it up and looks great, but the sativa phenotype plant has a couple bud sites with that look curled from too much nitrogen

Now, i've been using like 1/4tsp of the maxibloom, and a 1/2tsp of kool bloom per gallon.
Flushed both of them, and tested the water after the flushing, The runt was 1400+ ppm on the runoff, and the sativa pheno plant was 1100+ ppm.

Now after the flush, and lowering the nutes a lot, I've dropped the runts runoff from 1400 to 900ppm, but could only make the sativa pheno's runoff 900ppm from 1100.
I'm sure the runt can handle it, because it has nice buds that are getting pretty big, but the other plant I'm shooting for 600ppm on the runoff.

Only 1 more week of nitrogen for them, then a week and a half of straight kool bloom, and then a 10 day flush. When its put that way, It doesn't seem like forever Hopefully the trichs will be to my liking by then.

heres some pictures

Beautiful Dark lush,vigorous, Green colour of your Plant's!!!~~~~Picture of Health, & Perfection.

The Flower's are coming along, & Loading up on Trich.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::pimp::pimp: